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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is signaling that if Republicans win the House majority in next month’s midterm elections, the GOP is likely to oppose more aid to Ukraine in its war with Russia. Since the invasion in February the majority of congressional Republicans and Democrats have united in authorizing billions of dollars in U.S. military and humanitarian assistance to Kyiv as a geopolitical and moral stand against Vladimir Putin’s aggression. McCarthy, who could be House speaker if Republicans triumph, indicated that that could end in a GOP-led House. “I think people are gonna be sitting in a recession...

Poltical rivals express similar sentiment in separate interviews; Kyiv's envoy to Israel says defense minister canceled an upcoming call with his Ukrainian counterpart In a rare expression of units between coalition and opposition figures, Defense Minister Gantz and opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday both expressed an unwillingness to alter Israel's policy of not sending defense equipment to Ukraine. 'We are not selling weapons to Ukraine," Gantz told the ultra-Orthodox Kol Chai radio station, noting instead the humanitarian aid Israel has been providing, and vowing to continue such shipments months into Russia's invasion of Ukraine... Meanwhile, in an interview on...

Rape jihad: Examples of a long bloody history of racist Arab sexual crimes targeting Jews, deemed nationalistic / racial. (In PC press, 'nationalistic' is often the more elegant term for Arab racism, just as minorities refers to Arabs).MAR-2011: "PALESTINIAN" ARAB RAPES JEWESS, FORCES COUPLE TO HAVE RELATIONS IN FRONT OF HIMNir Dvori, 'The rape in "Gan Ha'ir" - an event with a nationalist background,' 03.12.15. [https://mako.co.il/news-military/security-q4_2015/Article-f5459e9bef66151004.htm] The Ministry of Defense recognized the rape of the young woman in Tel Aviv in 2012 as an act of hostility. The rapist, a Palestinian from Nablus, also forced the victim and her partner...

Focusing on America’s failures to save more Jews in the Holocaust unintentionally strengthens the forces that would threaten Jews today. Here’s how.Among those excited by the announcement that America’s leading documentary filmmaker had produced a three-part series on the Holocaust were sectors of the Jewish community that have long insisted on the need for all Americans to learn about this subject. Who better suited for this task than Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein, known for their well-crafted, carefully researched historical projects? Not only could they be expected to produce a reliable—if not definitive—treatment of the extermination of the...

After a bruising primary season, the Republican ticket in New Hampshire looks like an arranged marriage between a popular, moderate, governor in Chris Sununu running for reelection and a more right-wing, self-proclaimed outsider vying for US Senate. After calling each other names, the two men are now united for what they see as the greater good – a Republican Senate and a fourth term for Sununu. And it’s not just in New Hampshire. This newfound unity is more common as the general election approaches and the stakes – GOP victory or defeat – become more real. In Arizona, for instance,...

The results revealed that eating later had a ‘profound effect on hunger’ and appetite-regulating hormones leptin and ghrelin, which influence our drive to eat. Specifically, leptin, which signals satiety, decreased across the 24 hours in the late eating condition compared to the early eating conditions. Nutritionists and dieticians decode the findingsIf you are one of those who believes in late dinners and midnight snacking, then know that you alone are the cause of many illnesses and conditions. Now these are completely avoidable if you shift the heavier food during the earlier part of the day, preferably in the first half....

Marx: For Francis, the Erring German Bishops Are “Not" on the Wrong PathBasically, Francis has not said "anything" against the Synodal Way, remarked Munich Cardinal Marx (Welt.de, 16 October).In Francis' view, the German bishops are "not" on the wrong path. Commenting on Francis' statement that there was already "a very good Protestant Church" in Germany and that there was "no need for two of them", Marx said: "It would be news to me that he would have that impression of the German Church."What Francis has said at the margins is not Marx's "point of reference," in order to understand his...

Boston University did not create a new, more lethal strain of COVID-19 in its laboratory. At least that is what the University is saying after reports, such as this Fox News report which was spread widely, claimed that is exactly what researchers did at the school. Boston University is, in fact, studying the virus and it says it is doing so “to help fight against future pandemics.” And it says, too, that it did combine the omicron variant’s spike protein with the original virus for testing on mice. And, at first glance, the tests do sound a bit ominous. Because,...

@aaronjmate @AOC accuses her anti-war protesters of "parroting pro-Putin talking points." She has nothing to say about Biden's rejection of diplomacy, nor explain how the Squad-approved billions of dollars in weapons will help end the war. She instead invokes Ukraine's "self-determination."

Pontifical Academy for Life Appoints Pro-Abortion Atheist MemberMariana Mazzucato joins a growing list of members who hold views antithetical to the Catholic Church.VATICAN CITY — The Pontifical Academy for Life has appointed to its list of full members a highly influential atheist economist who supports legalized abortion and whose views on the economy have in part been praised by Pope Francis. Mariana Mazzucato, who teaches the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London and is a member of the World Economic Forum, was appointed on Saturday by Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the academy, and Msgr....

Shirley Hughes, the mother of one of murderer Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims, is calling out the use of Dahmer’s image for Halloween costumes this year as being exploitative, according to a report by TMZ. In an interview with the outlet, Hughes said it was triggering to see people dress like the man who took her son, Tony Hughes, away. Tony Hughes was a deaf man who was murdered by Dahmer. Dahmer was eventually convicted of killing 17 men between the 1970s and 1990s. His other horrific deeds included sexual assault, the mutilation of his victims, and sex crimes involving minors. Authorities...

Where do you stand — or sit, as the case may be — on a controversial air travel issue? For years people have weighed in on whether they (or other passengers) should fully recline their seats during a flight, especially amid a long flight — because the act of reclining that seat means the person seated behind the airplane chair will have far less space than otherwise. People are vehement on both sides of this issue. (“Yes, go for it! It’s your seat and you paid for it!” some say — while others maintain with equal passion, “No, don’t recline...

a drug used to treat addiction could be what millions of long Covid sufferers around the world need to finally address their symptoms. Naltrexone is a generic drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat both alcohol and opioid addicts. But in small trials it has been able to relieve long Covid patients of lingering ailments like brain fog and fatigue that last months after the initial infection. The drug - sold under the brand name Revia - is now being touted as a crucial piece of the puzzle of long Covid that has stumped experts for over...

It has been a while since studios began releasing movies and shows that retell the stories of serial killers like Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and John Wayne Gacy. These retellings tend to spark some questionable trends on social media. Most of them involve viewing gruesome crime scene images, or even romanticizing the murderer. Trigger warning: This article contains content that may be disturbing to read. Reader discretion is advised. Following the release of Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, TikTokers have flooded the internet with a trend that attempts to show compassion for the killer. This trend involves people...

Not all senescent cells are harmful "zombies" that should be wiped out to prevent age-related disease, according to research, which found that some of them are embedded in young, healthy tissues and promote normal repair from damage. Scientists have now seen these cells in action in lung tissue, as well as other organs that serve as barriers in the body, such as the small intestine, colon and skin. When they used drugs called senolytics to kill these cells, injuries to lung tissues healed more slowly. "Senescent cells can occupy niches with privileged positions as 'sentinels' that monitor tissue for injury...

@JohnStossel I never thought I’d make a video debunking a TV series. But President Obama’s ignorant Netflix series, “The G Word," deserves debunking. If you don’t want to waste 3 hours watching Obama promote big government, watch this instead:

Lawmakers in New Jersey have introduced a bill that would prevent police from using newborn bloodspots for anything other than detecting disease. The bill, Bill A4642, is a direct response from lawmakers regarding a 2021 rape case. Last year, New Jersey State Police subpoenaed the New Jersey Department of Health in order to obtain the dried bloodspot card of a 9-year-old child. They then used genetic genealogy to identify the child’s father and arrest him for the rape of a 10-year-old girl in 1996 and a five-year-old girl in 2003. Subsequently, the Office of the Public Defender and the New...

KIEV, October 19/TASS/.Air raid sirens went off late on Tuesday night in the Odessa, Kirovograd and Poltava regions, local authorities reported on their Telegram channels. An air raid alert also sounded in the Sumy, Kharkov, Nikolayev and Dnepropetrovsk Regions.

The new commander of the Russian army in Ukraine, Sergei Surovikin, said on Tuesday that civilians were being “resettled” from the Russian-occupied southern city of Kherson, describing the military situation in Ukraine as “tense.” “The enemy continually attempts to attack the positions of Russian troops,” Surovikin said in his first televised interview since his appointment last week, adding that the situation was particularly difficult around the occupied southern city of Kherson. “Further actions regarding Kherson will depend on the developing military and tactical situation, which is not easy, and difficult decisions cannot be ruled out,” he said.

A senior US health official today admitted that controversial Covid manipulation research carried out in a laboratory in Boston was not authorized — despite being funded by taxpayer money. DailyMail.com exclusively revealed yesterday that a team from Boston University had developed a hybrid Covid virus — combining the Omicron and original Wuhan strains — which had an 80 per cent lethality rate. Public records indicate it was partly paid for using a grant awarded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the federal government's main research agencies. As part of any Government-funded research grants, teams...